Improvement in combined match-safes, pin-cushions



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COMBINED MATCH-SAFE. PnI-cusmoN. &c. No. 179,897. Patented July 18. 1876.

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IRVING o. OOWLES, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED MATCH-SA'FES, PIN-CUSHIONS, etc.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,897, dated July 18, 1876 application filed December 23, 1875.

- Toall whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IRVING G. OoWLEs, of Syracuse, in the county ofOnondaga and State of New York, have invented a new, novel, and useful article for the pocket, consisting of a match-safe, pin-cushion, and a receptacle for postage-stamps.

Construction and operation of my invention are fully setforth in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my in vention; Fig. 2,,a longitudinal section.

A B O, the match-safe; D, the pin-cushion, and F the stamp-receptacle.

The object of my invention is to form, in a novel and economical manner, in connection with a match-safe, a convenient pin-cushion and safe mode of carrying postage stamps without their becoming sticky from the moisture of the body, or getting otherwise soiled.

My invention is constructed in the following manner: A box, E, Fig. 2, is formed of convenient size for the vest-pocket, in which three fonrths of the space is divided lengthwise for the match-safe A B G. The remaining one-fourth is divided crosswise0ne-half forthepin-cnshion D, the other halffor thepostage-stampreceptacleF. Thestamp-receptacle and match-safe have covers hinged in the usual manner. Each part is so arranged that one will not interfere with the other.

I claim as my invention- An article for the pocket, consisting of the match-safe A B G, having on half of one of its sides a pinecushion, D, and on the other half of the same side a receptacle for postagestamps, F, substantially as described.

4 IRVING O. OOWLES.

Witnesses ABRAHAM EXSTEIN, CHARLES MILLER. 

